MMR scandal: Wakefield accused of ‘deliberate fraud’

DISCREDITED surgeon Andrew Wakefield, who authored the controversial paper that linked the MMR vaccine with autism in 1998, received another blow to the tatters of his reputation this week as the BMJ published a series of papers claiming that the work was not only misleading, but also “fraudulent”.

Wakefield’s claims infamously led to a slump in the number of children being given the MMR vaccine. Now new research by journalist Brian Deer of the UK’s Sunday Times newspaper brands Wakefield’s work “a …

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